This month we start looking
back over our TLI programme
of the past 18 months, keep
you updated on news from
within VANEL and from across
our membership, and ensure
we keep you informed of
events and activities relevant
to your own organisations.
Don’t forget that if you are a
Member or Friend your news
could be included here too...

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Looking back at TLI:
Mapping our community assets
VANEL has now come to the end of our Transforming Local Infrastructure (TLI)
programme, and over the next few issues of our newsletter we’ll be sharing with
you our reports on what we did, how well it worked and what we expect to see next
as a result of this programme. This month we’ll focus on the community assets
mapping and knowledgebase components of TLI which resulted primarily in the
creation of our family of INandAROUND community websites. (http://nel.inandaround.org.uk)
Our project outcome was to develop ways to enable more efficient use of community
assets (buildings primarily) used by frontline organisations across the borough. We
originally developed an ‘asset map’ as a detailed, informative pdf, but, after feedback, this evolved and through a number of shared pilot versions it become what
now exists as INandAROUND. Our assets knowledgebase within INandAROUND
now maps every community building and open space in each ward, along with all
community based or community focused organisations and much more.

The family of websites has evolved into an ever more capable community communication tool for each ward, with more and more data being populated. They exist as
a resource now for community members, local voluntary/community organisations and service providers to all
explore and understand what is offered and available across the entire borough.
Our biggest challenge has been getting the deep involvement of those in the community who could help us to
develop, improve and support the sites. One identified challenge has been lack of website/digital technology
skills and capabilities within the community or within organisations. We’ve tackled this too by growing our support for ‘all things digital’ via our popular WebClub initiative (see back page). And we’re continuing to develop
INandAROUND using our new team of enfuse apprentice youth community development workers as well as
other volunteers they recruit.
Through TLI we developed the assets, mapping and knowledgebase
further (for example through a number of detailed case studies too),
and you can read much more in the full report on our website.
This article and a more complete report can be downloaded from the VANEL
website. Each of our TLI reviews and reports will be added to the website each
month. Visit www.vanel.org.uk/tli
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NEWS from Members and VANEL...
A small selection of news from VANEL and our members. Visit the VANEL website to read much more
news relevant to our sector. If your organisation is a
VANEL Member or Friend then you can advertise any
news you have via our website. editor@vanel.org.uk

Members & Friends Update
At the last VANEL executive meeting, the following
organisations were confirmed as new Members and
Friends of VANEL:

New CEO at YMCA

North East Lincolnshire Healthwatch (member)
Crimestoppers (member)
Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education
(member)
Meniscus Film Society (member)
The Ice House Christian Centre (member)
Franklin College (friend)
Grimsby Food Kitchen (friend)
Waltham Community Football Club (friend)

The Trustees of Grimsby Cleethorpes and Humber
Region YMCA are pleased to announce the appointment of Malcolm Smith as the new Chief Executive
Officer.
Following a rigorous recruitment process, which included two panels made of trustees, staff and young
people and additional local representation, it was very
clear to all that Malcolm was the outstanding candidate.

Good to have you onboard. Keep an eye on our website for profiles of new members as they appear. If you
are an existing Member or Friend why not have us do a
short profile about you on our website.
Contact editor@vanel.org.uk if you've got some words
you'd like us to share.

The past year has seen many improvements to the
service at YMCA and also the strengthening of many
partnerships between many organisations; and I know
it is Malcolm’s intention to continue these improvements for the benefit of all associated with the YMCA.
YMCA are excited about the future and look forward
to what it may hold for ourselves but more importantly
for the young people we serve.

Hate Crime National Awareness
Week 2013

Thank you for all you do in aiding us in our work and
trust that you will continue to offer your support as we
move into this new era.

For the second year running, the national Hate Crime
Awareness Week has been announced to take place
from 12th-18th October. Tackling hate crime locally remains a priority for Safer and Stronger Communities
and we are committed to ensuring that individuals and
communities are safe from abuse based on prejudice
and discrimination. For more information on what constitutes a hate crime, please visit our website:
www.nelincs.gov.uk/resident/safer-and-strongercommunities/hate-crime

On behalf of the Trustees of Grimsby Cleethorpes
and Humber Region YMCA.
More on YMCA website: www.gcymca.com

Do you need some help?
Does your organisation have a project that could
do with some help? For a start you should make
sure that it’s registered with the North East Lincolnshire Volunteer Centre so that we can match your
needs up with local volunteers. Our Volunteer Centre
is quality accredited and can support you to ensure
your opportunities are filled.

Communities and organisations across the country will
be marking Hate Crime Awareness Week through
events, meetings and vigils. If you would like to organise
a hate crime awareness event in North East Lincolnshire and require resources or more information, then
contact Usman Nawaz (Community Safety Officer) by
email usman.nawaz@nelincs.gov.uk or call 324968.

In any month we have 50+ new volunteers come forward, amounting to nearly 800 each year. Those volunteers are looking for opportunities, so if you have
something that needs doing please contact the centre
on 01472 231123 to talk it through with us.

National Hate Crime Week is organised by the No To
Hate Crime campaign. More details about the week and
the organisation can be found via their website
visit: http://bit.ly/18K6Duu

Tukes Fundraising
Tukes hold a Table Top Sale on the last Sunday of every month (12noon-4pm) at Tukes Café and Conference
Centre on Brighowgate, Grimsby. All welcome & tables
£5 a pitch. All to raise money for Tukes activities. Contact Sally Smith at Tukes via 342172

In addition, the Youth Offending Service (YOS) are
seeking winter projects that their young offenders can
be involved with as part of their reparation work. If
you have work that could help your community then
you might want to talk to the Youth Offending Service
about it (01472 325252, Lynne Macpherson).
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A bit more news...
Latest from
the enfuse team

VANEL Staff Focus
Eddie Weeks has retired again!
Back in May 2012 Eddie went
down to one day a week with
VANEL, but he’s now retired fully
and is off to pursue other interests.
After thirteen years at VANEL he
deserves a change! Thanks Eddie.

It is that time of month again to let you all know what the
enfuse team have been up and about to. First things
first are that we have 4 brand new, shiny members to
the team! So please give a big warm welcome to
Bayard, Claire, Phil and Anneliese. Bayard and Phil will
be the new recycling specialists and Claire and Anneliese are working alongside Shoreline. We hope they
are settling in well and enjoying life in the wonderful
world of enfuse.
We worked at The Fresher’s Fairs, at Grimsby Institute
and Franklin College and the success we had was really
amazing. This was our first big recruitment drive as such
and over the 3 days we had over 100 people signed up.
We are really happy with the results and are looking at
engaging them over the coming weeks.
The next big event we are working on as a group is the
Local Democracy Conference, which we are helping the
Council for Young People and Young Advisors. The
event is aimed at school leavers, helping them get ready
for work. Something which we feel ties in perfectly with
the work our team does.

We’ve also had no less than four new starters with
the enfuse youth team. Bayard Tarpley and Phil
Simpson will be the new recycling specialists, and
Claire Lilliman and Anneliese Hannar are working
alongside Shoreline. Each of them have been with
us a matter of days or weeks so are still getting used
to their new roles. Again, good to have them
onboard. More about them and from them in future
newsletters.

Winter Planning
Entering its third year the Winter Planning Campaign
is once more poised and ready to support elderly and
vulnerable people during extreme weather conditions.

You can contact the Enfuse team
on 01472 315437
via email on enfuse@vanel.org.uk,
look at the webpage www.vanel.org.uk/enfuse
(our new website is coming soon)
or follow on Twitter @enfusegy

The official re-launch of the campaign will take place
on Friday 18th October, 10am-2pm at Age UK,
Osbourne Street, Grimsby. Why not come along and
meet the partners and the campaign. It's an excellent
opportunity to come and check out the Age UK office
and cafe.

Children in Need

If you have a group that would like to hear about the
campaign then please contact the email address below.

Children in Need is on 15th November. Many
organisations across the borough will be fundraising on
or around that day, and VANEL is no exception.
VANEL, our enfuse team and Communities Together
have all teamed up to organise an afternoon of activities
at The Elms (22 Abbey Road) under the title, “Times
Past”.
We start off with a cake sale. We are holding our very
own Bake Off competition. If you are interested in taking
part then either complete the application form or drop an
email to vicky@vanel.org.uk or thomas@vanel.org.uk
registering your interest and if you would like to bake
something sweet or savoury. These will then be sold in
our cake sale to benefit Children in Need. Even if you do
not want to enter the competition we would appreciate a
selection of cakes and savouries to sell.
Other activities we have planned for the day include parlour games, quizzes and dancing. Donation buckets will
be located at the events so please be generous.
As part of our theme, VANEL staff based in the Elms
have been invited to dress up as a person who has influenced them from their past. Please feel free to come
across and join the team at the Elms to raise money for
Children in Need.

If you would like to offer your support to the campaign then please email vicky@vanel.org.uk or check
out the website www.winterplanning.org.uk.
Please be aware that the volunteer role does require
a DBS check.

Latest from Big Local
At the recent Cleethorpes Food festival, over 800
people gave us their opinion on how we should invest the million pounds given to North Cleethorpes to
make the resort from the Kingsway to Ramsdens a
better place to live work and visit.
Overall, it was a very successful day and the Big Local steering group is now going to pull together all of
those opinions and send a newsletter to everyone
who lives in the area to see whether they feel we are
going in the right direction.
In the New Year there will be a public meeting called
to hear what people have to say and to vote for the
formation of the partnership group that will prepare
the investment plan.
http://cleethorpes.inandaround.org.uk

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VANEL Support for your Technology issues
At VANEL, we encourage all voluntary and community groups, charities and social enterprises to make the most
of technology, so we’re coinciding with this years’ national Get Online week (14-20 October) to help groups to
make the most of online technology. We have a number of training sessions, workshops, surgeries and discussions running that week, to which all Members and Friends are invited to attend. Full information is on the website (www.vanel.org.uk/getonline2013) but here’s the agenda for the week:
Tuesday 15th: 9.30am-10.15am “The Voluntary and Community Sector and the Digital by Default Environment” – keynote introduction and discussion.
10.30am – 11.30am “Good Ideas Workshop”. We’ll share our tech tips and ideas and hopefully you can share
what you’ve been trying too.
11.30-1pm A variety of 1:1 Technical surgeries –
about the web, hardware, software, social media, raspberry Pi’s, Chromebooks and lots more. Check the flyer
online for more details, but drop in and get your questions answered.
Come along on Tuesday for the whole morning or just
pop in for one or more of these sessions:
Tuesday afternoon: 2pm-2.30pm “CTX Masterclass”. For any registered charity to understand how to
get super-cheap software via the CTX scheme.
4pm-6pm is our normal, scheduled “WebClub” session.
Members welcome, but anyone else is encourage to try
it out for free.
Wednesday 16th: 9.30am-11.30am
“Cooking up a Website” training
session for absolute web beginners.
1pm-3pm “WordPress for Beginners” training session (£5 per head)
Places on all sessions will be very limited, so please let
us know if you are coming. Book via Karl Elliott
(karl@vanel.org.uk or 01472 235311).
www.vanel.org.uk/getonline2013

VANEL AGM 7th November
The VANEL Annual General Meeting will take
place on 7th November 2013 at The Grimsby University Centre Board Room. The AGM itself will
take place at 2pm and all Members are invited to
attend for this formal part of our yearly calendar.
Directly after the AGM (2.30pm – 4pm approx)
there will be a keynote presentation by Dr Peter
Melton, Clinical Chief Officer of the NEL Clinical Commissioning Group – “Healthy Lives,
Healthy Futures”. All Members and Friends are
invited to attend this session to complete the afternoon.
Prior to the AGM, VANEL will also be hosting
three workshops and 1:1 surgery sessions.
The sessions will run between 9.30am and
12.30pm on three key topics: Funding, Pensions
and Technology.
More details of these sessions will be available
soon, and for information about any part of the
AGM day please keep an eye on the VANEL
website at www.vanel.org.uk/agm.

Services to VANEL Members and Friends
VANEL continues to offer a wide range of services and support to Members and
Friends organisations. If you need a reminder of how we might be able to help, visit
the website www.vanel.org.uk, or take a look at our Services and Contact flyer
(www.vanel.org.uk/servicessheet).
If in any doubt, just give us a call on 01472 231123 to speak to reception or ask for
your Account Manager.

Opening Hours
The 14 Town Hall Street office is
open 9am-4pm Monday-Thursday.